Catan Classic 4+

I have had this App for years. And have played a lot. I love Catan and the app is pretty good, but as seen in other reviews there is both silly and frustrating AI behavior. They definitely team up on you when you’re about to win, but not each other. The probability of 7’s being rolled when you’re about to win is comically probable. The AI definitely play knight cards when they don’t even have development cards. The trading with AI is tilted toward the human player—basically because you can always keep asking them over and over what they would give to maximize your gain, which no human would put up with. The AI will sometimes build roads in directions that have no value whatsoever. And while I believe that the dice roll may match the bell curve, there is definitely a high probability of your numbers being rolled while it’s blocked by the robber. And also a higher likelihood than normal that all your numbers will get rolled in sequence followed by a seven. I think the AI’s weren’t smart enough initially to challenge human players, so they added all of these strange handicaps.

Game is not worth $5 by any stretch of anyones imagination. Terrible layout. 40% of the game screen is water/unused surface, but for some reason they lay the ridiculous emojis over ur opponents running score. The game selection menu is junk. Worse than junk. Hot, sweaty, junky junk. If someone does not accept to join game, all players are reshuffled per each not acceptance and have to accept each time a new player even enters the screen. Makes no sense. Worst part is people not playing. There is apparently no time limit on turns, which is obnoxious, and when someone quits mid game, instead of just switching over to AI player seamlessly, all players are logged out to menu screen and have to re-accept playing a game that they are already playing. The game freezes constantly. Like 60% of the time. It’s like the have one server. You are likely to complete about 20% of games started because either the game freezes, someone else quits mid game and it just idles endlessly, or you quit yourself out of frustration. Whoever designed this game should have an immediate reduction in pay, or at minimum should have to spend the months of June-August scrubbing the Oakland Coliseum mens room latrines….. if u have never been there, it is a community urinal…… sooooo….. u know…… gross…… just like this game layout and functions. Yuck. THIS GAME IS FRIGGIN GARBAGE!!! I want my money back.

I would absolutely rate this app 5 stars it’s so good. There is 1 bug on online games that bothers me enough and happens enough to be very annoying and happen very often so brings my review to 3. It’s SO annoying when it happens. Also super fixable i think so I’m hoping this review can help patch the bug, make it better. If you are in the game and it crashes or if an opponent crashes, it sometimes is not a big deal. Everyone loads back in to a screen that says “match recovered” And if everyone selects yes to reconnect, you just reload in and continue where you left off. Awesome.

Sometimes one person doesn’t reconnect and or leaves for whatever reason maybe on accident / unable to or maybe on purpose if they have a bad start for example. Well if they don’t load in, the remaining players just sit at that screen and can’t load in to finish the game, don’t even know if the player that is gone is going to reconnect or if they left. And there isn’t anyway for the remaining players to remove that person even if they’ve waited on that reconnecting screen for that person to come back. So eventually, you just get tired of waiting and players will leave and can’t finish their game.

Aside from that, game is very easy to use, fun and enjoyable!